In shape, it is perfectly elliptical. In texture, it is smooth and lustrous. In color, it ranges from pale alabaster to warm terra cotta. And in tast… - Sydney J. Harris

"All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here that the competition is the greatest, the expectations most elevated. If the boy would be happier as a telephone linesman or a forest ranger, he is in a hopeless bind. His goals have been set for him by his milieu, and he cannot be his own man; so he simply refuses to play the game. He "does not try.

All love relationships are controlled by an element of fear — that of acting, or becoming, unworthy of the loved one's approbation.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder — and turn quickly to my typewriter.